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@GretchenTG
Sep 16, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This is going viral because of the comic relief. But I want to be clear that parents are being put in an impossible situation now and it will derail entire careers, especially for moms. Some thoughts... #SciMomJourneys
Moms in science are used to juggling parent and work duties. Here's a time I gave public comment at the @EPA with my one-month-old while I was on maternity leave. blog.ucsusa.org/gretchen-goldm…
The pandemic is exacerbating inequities and struggles that parents--especially moms and especially moms of color--have long felt. Our entire support network has been ripped from under us. Here's something I wrote in @sciam with @500womensci: blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/scienti…
Parents shouldn't be gaslit into thinking they can hack their way out of this. We can create a facade of professional Zoom backgrounds but the problem is much bigger and it shouldn't be on us to fix it.
Our political leaders, our institutions, our employers must step up and ensure that parents in STEM and other fields aren't taking career penalties. Here's a set of recommendations for employers I wrote with @500womensci: static1.squarespace.com/static/582cce4…
In the meantime, shout out to my fellow moms getting it done, with or without the support we need.

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Jan 30, 2021
Great new story on the huge gaps in federal science capacity that the Biden Team inherits, and what that means for the nation's ability to protect people from environmental threats. Here's some key points from the story and @UCSUSA analysis...

apnews.com/article/joe-bi…
Here's the scientist deficit data on @EPA, @NASA, @NSF, @USGS, @USFWS, @usedgov, and @BOEM_DOI. It is clear that science agencies fared very differently under Trump. ucsusa.org/resources/fede…
Look at that spread. Agencies like @NSF and @NASA maintained the level of scientific experts they had pre-Trump, while places like @EPA and @usedgov's Institute of Educational Services lost greater percentages of their scientific staff. Figure 1 of report in link ...
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Jan 6, 2021
Ok fine. I'll take the bait.

Allow me to translate. (1/7)
By this, @EPAAWheeler means the rule forces EPA to give "less consideration" to studies using any dose-response data that isn't public. This could include studies relying on personally identifiable health data, older studies, and other key studies. (2/7)
The rule, indeed, doesn't force release of these data. (It legally couldn't anyway). But it does mandate that these studies be arbitrarily downweighted for being nonpublic, a factor that has nothing to do with scientific quality or EPA relevance (3/7)
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Jan 5, 2021
The administration's rule to restrict EPA science--which was unilaterally opposed by the scientific community in nearly a million comments--will be finalized. Some thoughts in a THREAD... washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
They claim the final rule has been "narrowed" because it is focused on dose-response data. But substantial parts of EPA work concerns this fundamental question: At what level is this pollutant harmful to public health and the environment?" Thus, this is anything but narrow.
EPA cannot do its job of protecting the public if it must jump through hoops to even be able to access the science that informs their decisions.

We shouldn't overlook how bonkers this rule is, and has always been. ucsusa.org/about/news/epa…
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Dec 29, 2020
Hard to make sense of this strange year but here's some things I did and wrote, along with some thoughts for the coming year.
In January I testified to Congress on the importance of public access to information on oil and gas drilling on public lands--an issue that I hope will be prioritized in the coming years. blog.ucsusa.org/gretchen-goldm…
In February, I published a paper on the impacts of (one of the many) Trump air pollution protection rollbacks.

Even as the Trump era ends, I hope we continue to assess its impacts on people. Some of the harm will only be clear in the years to come. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
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May 19, 2020
New @UCSUSA analysis: The public is hearing less from CDC scientists and more from the White House than in past infectious disease outbreaks. And it is costing the public. Here's some key finding from @anita_desikan's and my new work. ucsusa.org/resources/let-…
First, you might expect more communication for bigger outbreaks, but that hasn't been the case. Even though COVID cases have far outnumbered past epidemics, we've only heard as much from the CDC as we did on SARS (which only had 8 US cases)
All those White House-led COVID briefings? Those aren't normal. Historically, CDC-led briefings have been the primary source of crisis communication during epidemics. Instead, under the Trump administration, CDC expertise is taking a back seat to White House communications.
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Apr 23, 2020
We couldn't predict #COVID19, but CDC scientists did predict a pandemic and our lack of preparedness. My new @PLOSONE paper with @UCSJacob has important findings that inform decisionmakers actions now. Here's some key points from our paper released today. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
In 2018, we worked with @IowaStateU to ask 63,000 scientists at the @CDCgov, @USEPA, @Interior and other federal science agencies about scientific integrity. We learned a lot that could have predicted the many science policy challenges the nation now faces.
More than any other agency, CDC respondents reported White House interference as a top barrier to science-based decisions—an alarming finding in the midst of a global pandemic where CDC scientists’ ability to conduct science is an immediate matter of life and death.
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